Immortal Estate.
Taiqing City Alchemy Vocational and Technical College, sports stadium.
At that moment, row upon row of seats stood empty. The entire Stadium had been sealed off, and ordinary students were strictly forbidden from coming over to sing, dance, or play basketball.
After all, the college's Dao Tournament contestants for the first stage were about to be selected here. Naturally, no interference could be allowed.
The Dao Tournament's First Academic Stage and second stages were especially important, and their rewards were the richest.
Those two stages covered the first ten years of Junior College.
In the Ministry of Education's eyes, if someone had made no real progress in those first ten years, then even if they transferred to an undergraduate college afterward, they would only be ordinary talent.
The Dao Tournament existed to find geniuses overlooked in Junior College, so no bright pearl would be left to gather dust.
But anyone competing in the third or fourth stage had already spent fifteen or twenty years in Junior College. That was no bright pearl. That was a real pig.
So this First Academic Stage selection was an excellent opportunity for any Junior College student hoping to make a name for themselves!
Liang Ninghong sat in his seat, nervous beyond words.
Thanks to his recent deal with Chen Zhuo, he had successfully broken through to Qi Refining Ninth Layer. Though he was in his third year and would become a fourth-year student after summer break, he was still a year short of the first stage's upper age limit.
But Liang Ninghong believed he might squeeze out a senior and claim the last spot on the five-person team.
And if he couldn't, being a substitute would do.
If some senior suddenly dropped dead in the arena, perhaps he would get to step